fc3 with kernel 2.6.10 stresses hard disk.

[Jonathan Underwood]

walter neumann wrote:

> Since upgrading to the 2.6.10 kernels my hard disk started parking 2
> to 3 times a minute, at which rate it will reach its advertised 'end
> of life' engineering limit on the number of head parks in less than a
> year. This is invisible in use: no unusual disk activity is noticable.
> I discovered it by noticing that my drive's Load_Cycle_Count, as
> reported by the smartctl, had increased as much in two weeks as in the
> previous 9 months.

For the unfamiliar with smartctl, can you detail which test specifically 
gives information on Load_Cycle_Count?

Cheers,
Jonathan.